Bottle from batch 0410. Pours muddy brown with little head. Aroma is sweet malt and flavor is the same. There’s some burnt roast taste with a lot of alcohol. One thing for sure, this beer would warm you up during a cold winter night .

Cask@Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival 2011. Had in sampling amount, thanks to the bardude. Deep ambery brown colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is berries, sweet malts, alcohol, mild glue and some raisins. Flavour is rather similar except for the glue and alcohol, which are coming in too strong.

Bottled. Hazy mahogany colour, small coarse head. Salty caramel aroma. Sweet with full body, flavour is all heavilty salted caramel. Some vodka in an otherwise mellow finish. Just way too strong with not much balancing flavours.

Bottle. Bought for an amazing £1.95!
Brown appearance with no life whatsover. Deceiving presence of alcohol-without the bottle you wouldn’t believe it was 9.5 per cent. The subtle sweetness lingers .Not an outstanding barley wine but better than some.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Pigs Ear.Dark amber with a rather chunky consistency and a very thin white rim. Thickly sweet and very assertive aroma. More of the same in the flavour. The malt is so sweet it’s almost tart. Medicinal and rather harsh fruity notes. Generally not a particularly pleasant Barley Wine.

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